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Porcelains and Peacocks: Decorative Painter Willem Racké: California Homes Magazine Fall 2014
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An Interior Design, Decorative Arts, and Fine Arts Blog. Decorative Painter Willem Racké: California Homes Magazine Fall 2014. Posted by Kendra Boutell. Labels: California Homes Magazine: Notebook. Please leave a feather to add to our plumage:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). San Francisco, California, United States. View my complete profile. In Black and White: Published Articles. California Homes Magazine: San Francisco Decorator Showcase. California Homes Magazine: Designer Suzanne Tucker. Califor...
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Porcelains and Peacocks: March 2015
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An Interior Design, Decorative Arts, and Fine Arts Blog. A Mill Valley House: California Homes Magazine Spring 2015. Posted by Kendra Boutell. Labels: California Homes Magazine: Photographer David Duncan Livingston and Designer Florence Choux Livingston. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). San Francisco, California, United States. View my complete profile. In Black and White: Published Articles. California Homes Magazine: San Francisco Decorator Showcase. California Homes Magazine: Designer Suzanne Tucker. Calif...
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Mad about Interiors: September 2015
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Share my madness about interiors, my passion for historic images, designs, pelmets, valances, beds and curtains, swags and tails and all those wonderful things that today's taste has sadly forgotten about. Friday, 18 September 2015. One of my all time favourite rooms is the drawing room at Hambleden Manor. If you missed my raving about it (and my sadness about its recent demise) read about it here. I'm glad I have a reason to use this image again: it shows the subject of this post. the chandelier. Howeve...
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THE BLUE LANTERN: Michel Petrucciani: Never Say Goodbye
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Illuminating Arts And Letters. Michel Petrucciani: Never Say Goodbye. 8220;There's a lot of people walking around, full-grown and so-called normal – they have everything that they were born with at the right leg length, the right arm length and stuff like that. They're symmetrical in every way. But they live their lives like they are armless, legless, brainless, and they live their life with blame. I never heard Michel complain about anything. Anything else you can say about him is a formality. Michel Pe...
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THE BLUE LANTERN: The Reappearance Of Carl Moll
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Illuminating Arts And Letters. The Reappearance Of Carl Moll. The art historian Ernst Gombrich wrote that "We must not assume that the artist did not see what he did not paint." What about paintings we not see, in particular the ones that were admired in their own time? A rapidly increasing urban population would have required major changes to what remained a largely medieval city anyway. To their credit, the monarchy and the newly empowered bourgeoisie cooperated on unglamorous projects. That he used fa...
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Mad about Interiors: December 2013
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Share my madness about interiors, my passion for historic images, designs, pelmets, valances, beds and curtains, swags and tails and all those wonderful things that today's taste has sadly forgotten about. Tuesday, 17 December 2013. Hotel style' . or is it. Although it has been a while, today only a quick post, as my books are still packed away and I've got 3 boxes of Christmas decorations to empty. Runs in front of the curtain track, thus forming a kind of pelmet box. Last week I visited the Rijksmuseum...
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Porcelains and Peacocks: Brigid: The Goddess and The Saint
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An Interior Design, Decorative Arts, and Fine Arts Blog. Brigid: The Goddess and The Saint. Predicted six more weeks of winter. The famous Pennsylvanian groundhog has his antecedents in ancient European weather lore. During the Celtic festival of Imbolc. People watched to see if serpents or badgers ventured from their winter dens:. The serpent will come from the hole
. On the brown Day of Bríde,
. Though there should be three feet of snow. 8232;On the flat surface of the ground. Posted by Kendra Boutell.
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Porcelains and Peacocks: Harmony in Blue and Green: The Peacock in Decorative Arts
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An Interior Design, Decorative Arts, and Fine Arts Blog. Harmony in Blue and Green: The Peacock in Decorative Arts. The Indian Blue Peacock with its. Plumage has long provided a decorative motif in art and interiors. As the national bird of India they were often depicted in architecture. Peacock courtyard) is in the. Century. The glass tile mosaics were added in the nineteenth. Century to embellish the. 8221;Venice of the East”. The Arts and Crafts. Posted by Kendra Boutell. View my complete profile.
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Porcelains and Peacocks: Black and White: The Moor, The Black Mozart and Pushkin
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An Interior Design, Decorative Arts, and Fine Arts Blog. Black and White: The Moor, The Black Mozart and Pushkin. Before the United States elected a biracial President there were other prominent people of mixed African and European ancestry. Italian Alessandro de' Medici. 1510-1537) ruled Florence as its first Duke. The illegitimate son of Cardinal Giulio de' Medici. And an African slave, he was called il Moro. The Moor. Alessandro had two children Giulio. With his mistress Taddea Malespina. 1782-1836) t...
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THE BLUE LANTERN: Inside The Museum: Louvre City
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Illuminating Arts And Letters. Inside The Museum: Louvre City. I Antoine Watteau's Pierrot. Looks wonderfully at home in the freshly painted and newly arranged gallery of eighteenth century French paintings at the Louvre. The painting, long known by the name Gilles,. Was completed almost three hundred years ago and came to the Louvre as a gift in 1869 and, although it is familiar, the museum's director hopes that Pierrot. And other familiar works will be looked at anew. For museums or the worst of times?
